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I realize this is a dramatization and not a documentary...


...and, in such cases, creative license is taken to craft a more compelling narrative. However, besides the very broadest of strokes, namely...

• He was a genius and a visionary in the fields of mathematics/logic/cryptography/computing with an unusual personality
• He was instrumental in breaking the Enigma code and built electromechanical devices toward that end (as well as others)
• He was temporarily engaged to a woman
• He was found guilty of homosexual activity and made to undergo chemical castration
• He committed suicide

...was there ANYTHING in this movie that was portrayed accurately aside from his relationship with Christopher Morcom and his devastation over losing him at such an early age?

I had just finished reading Andrew Hodges' biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma" and was excited to see this movie but was disgusted as scene after scene after scene deviated from reality in the hackiest, most cliché, eye-roll-inducing manner.

Personally, I think it's insulting to his memory to treat the story of his life in such a cheap, fictitious way.

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